Who is the most famous female author of all time?

Who is the most famous female author of all time?

7 of the Most Influential Female Writers of All Time

• Jane Austen (1775-1817)
• Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
• Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
• Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
• Ursula Le Guin (1922-2018)
• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Who are the most famous authors in history?

Top 10 Authors by Number of Books Selected

• William Shakespeare – 11.
• William Faulkner – 6.
• Henry James – 6.
• Jane Austen – 5.
• Charles Dickens – 5.
• Fyodor Dostoevsky – 5.
• Ernest Hemingway – 5.
• Franz Kafka – 5.

Who are the best female authors of all time?

J.K. Rowling.

George Eliot. Mary Evans went by the pen name George Eliot as she did not want her work to be defined by her gender.

Daphne du Maurier.

Zadie Smith.

Louisa May Alcott.

Louise Erdrich.

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Angela Carter.

Edith Wharton.

Donna Tartt.

Who is the best selling female author of all time?

William Shakespeare. A name almost synonymous to literature,William Shakespeare tops our list of the best-selling authors of all time.

Agatha Christie. With an estimated sale ranging between two to four billion,the Guinness Book of World Records has named her as the best-selling novelist of all time.

Barbara Cartland.

Danielle Steel.

Harold Robbins.

Who are some great female writers?

Doris Lessing (1919 – 2013)

Toni Morrison (born 1931)

Ursula K Le Guin (born 1929)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Clarice Lispector (1920 – 1977)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977)

Margaret Atwood (born 1939)

Zadie Smith (born 1975)

Elena Ferrante (born 1943)

Angela Carter (1940 – 1992)

Who are the best female mystery authors?

Megan Abbott (born 1971)

Christine Adamo (born 1965)

Deborah Adams

Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (pseudonyms: Carolyn Keene,Franklin W. Dixon) (1892–1982)

Jane Adams (born 1960)

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (born 1949)

Joan Aiken (1924–2004)

Catherine Aird (born 1930)

Susan Wittig Albert (born 1940)

Goldie Alexander (born 1936)